Overview
- Under Operation Chakra‑V, the CBI arrested Vodafone area sales manager Binu Vidhyadharan in Delhi for allegedly arranging dummy KYC to enable bulk SIM issuance by projecting individuals as employees of M/s Lord Mahavira Services India Pvt. Ltd., with copies of Aadhaar cards recovered.
- CBI officials say about 21,000 SIM cards were procured in violation of DoT rules and operated via online platforms to send phishing SMS promising fake loans and investments, with three earlier suspects already in judicial custody.
- Delhi Police arrested five people, including two Yes Bank employees, in a case where an elderly couple was kept under so‑called digital arrest for a week and defrauded of around ₹96 lakh using bank accounts opened with forged documents.
- A joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh STF and Mumbai’s Crime Intelligence Unit captured a suspect accused of supplying more than 10,000 forged‑KYC SIM cards to cybercrime syndicates in India and to networks based in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.
- Judicial and police actions continued nationwide, including ₹56 lakh in refunds secured by Hyderabad cyber cops, a Delhi court’s bail denial to three accused tied to Lord Mahavira’s bulk SIMs, and fresh digital‑arrest complaints in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.